Adding printers to Windows 7 machines via GPO
As I've just spent a few hours getting this sorted, I thought I would share my experience in blog form in the hope that someone finds it useful. First up, I should point out that much of this blog can...
View ArticleCodeacademy and Google Chrome Frame
After reading last months PC Pro, I wanted to investigate www.codeacademy.com and see if it would work with our teaching. First issue with codeacademy is that it doesn't like IE and flatly refuses to...
View ArticleWindows 7 shutdown through Group Policy Preferences
Shutting down Windows 7 has been a bit of a bug bear, with some PCs refusing to shut down, or settings not quite working the way I wanted them to. In an ideal world, I wanted a situation where...
View ArticleDisable spell and grammar check for Office 2010
It's that time of the year again when I have to start looking at disabling spell check on Word for various Mock Exams. If only Wordpad had headers and footers, I wouldn't need to go through this every...
View ArticleWindows 8, Disk Usage, and the MSI GE60 Laptop
I rarely buy hardware as a complete package, preferring to build my own PCs, however when it comes to Laptops, I felt I ought to play it safe and buy from a brand. I wanted a laptop that was powerful...
View ArticleServer 2012 can really ruin your day
When it announces that it's going to restart in 15 minutes to complete windows updates. at 10:15. And it's the server that hosts the virtual server with SIMS installed. I had thought I had prevented...
View ArticleThe User Profile Service failed the logon
If you've worked with Windows 7 for any length of time, you're sure to have come across this error sooner or later. Most of the time it's relatively easy fix involving the registry, which you can find...
View ArticleWireless and Power settings
Background info Wireless has, for the most part, been the bane of my existence as a Network Manager. It's flaky, it's unreliable and it can ruin your otherwise lovely day. Combined with some odd...
View ArticleGoogle SSL, DNS 'Hack' and hundreds of countries...
Backstory I spent some time reading around http://www.edugeek.net/forums/intern...-searches.html and Google's enforced moving all searches to SSL and the issues this was causing for Web Filtering....
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